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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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More quotes by John Cage
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
John Cage
My work became an exploration of non-intention.
John Cage
No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
John Cage
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
John Cage
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
The world is teeming anything can happen.
John Cage
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
John Cage
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
John Cage
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
John Cage
If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
John Cage
I don't need sound to talk to me.
John Cage
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
John Cage
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
John Cage
When we separate music from life we get is art.
John Cage
Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
John Cage